A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe (test)

Inducks: W WDC 88-02
Barrier: MBAC-170
CBL: 07C-649
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1947, August 15 (Inducks submission: 1947-08-15)
Publication date: 1948, January (Inducks publication date: 1948-01)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 88, Vol. 8, No. 4
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Crazy winter bet; Wintertime Wager; has to bath during winter

Landmark: First appearance of Gladstone Gander.

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WDC 89 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 89, Vol. 8, No. 5

Inducks: WDC 89
Barrier: MBAC-172
Publisher: ...
Label: Dell
Publication date: 1948, February
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 52
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New material:

W WDC 89-02 night watchman in dockshed

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W WDC 89-02 night watchman in dockshed

(Inducks description: Watching the Watchman)

Hmm! Never knew this chair was so soft!
-- Donald Duck

Inducks: W WDC 89-02
Barrier: MBAC-172
CBL: 07C-659
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1947, September 4 (Inducks submission: 1947-09-04)
Publication date: 1948, February (Inducks publication date: 1948-02)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 89, Vol. 8, No. 5
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: DD gets watchman job, HDL have to watch him

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WDC 90 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 90, Vol. 8, No. 6

Inducks: WDC 90
Barrier: MBAC-172
Publisher: ...
Label: Dell
Publication date: 1948, March
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 52
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New material:

W WDC 90-02 telegram messenger boys

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W WDC 90-02 telegram messenger boys

(Inducks description: Wired)

Inducks: W WDC 90-02
Barrier: MBAC-172
CBL: 07C-669
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1947, October 9 (Inducks submission: 1947-10-09)
Publication date: 1948, March (Inducks publication date: 1948-03)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 90, Vol. 8, No. 6
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Messengers' competition

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WDC 91 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 91, Vol. 8, No. 7

Inducks: WDC 91
Barrier: MBAC-172
Publisher: ...
Label: Dell
Publication date: 1948, April
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 52
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New material:

W WDC 91-02 garden party monkeys

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W WDC 91-02 garden party monkeys

(Inducks description: Going Ape)

Inducks: W WDC 91-02
Barrier: MBAC-172
CBL: 07C-679
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1947, October 28 (Inducks submission: 1947-10-28)
Publication date: 1948, April (Inducks publication date: 1948-04)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 91, Vol. 8, No. 7
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: try to hypnotize HDL to act as apes in social party; DD tries to hypnotize HDL to act as apes in social party

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WDC 92 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 92, Vol. 8, No. 8

Inducks: WDC 92
Barrier: MBAC-172
Publisher: ...
Label: Dell
Publication date: 1948, May
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 52
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New material:

W WDC 92-02 the art of child rearing

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W WDC 92-02 the art of child rearing

(Inducks description: Spoil the Rod)

Stifling the child's extrovertentualities tends to subjunctuate his bio-physical transmogrification!
-- Pulpheart Clabberhead

Inducks: W WDC 92-02
Barrier: MBAC-172
CBL: 07C-689
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1947, December 30 (Inducks submission: 1947-12-30)
Publication date: 1948, May (Inducks publication date: 1948-05)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 92, Vol. 8, No. 8
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Pulpheart Clabberhead; Educational professor tells DD how to educate HDL; Spoil the Rod

Congruences:

Donald's Nephews: child psychology

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WDC 93 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 93, Vol. 8, No. 9

Inducks: WDC 93
Barrier: MBAC-172
Publisher:
Label: Dell
Publication date: 1948, June
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 52
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New material:

W WDC 93-02 rocket race to the moon

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W WDC 93-02 rocket race to the moon

(Inducks description: Rocket Race to the Moon)

Papyuh! Papyuh!! Readyuhmawnin' papyuh!
-- Donald Duck, as newsboy

Inducks: W WDC 93-02
Barrier: MBAC-172
CBL: 07C-699
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1948, January 16 (Inducks submission: 1948-01-16)
Publication date: 1948, June (Inducks publication date: 1948-06)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 93, Vol. 8, No. 9
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Rocket race to the Moon

Updates: Stuck on the moon, which in this story must have an air atmosphere, the ducks accidently drink from a "natural rocket fluid" spring containing "kerosine", "oil of gun cotton" and "essence of nitro-glycerine" (8.7). At that point, Donald has just scared away a moonman with a burning match (8.4), about which he comments: "No wonder that guy was afraid of fire!" (8.8)

The documentary "95 Worlds and Counting", premiered on Discovery Channel in February 2001, mentions it can rain fuel (methane?) on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. And if there would be air, one could cause an enormous explosion with a lighter.

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WDC 94 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 94, Vol. 8, No. 10

Inducks: WDC 94
Barrier: MBAC-172
Publisher: ...
Label: Dell
Publication date: 1948, July
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 52
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New material:

W WDC 94-02 coast patrol

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W WDC 94-02 coast patrol

(Inducks description: Donald of the Coast Guard)

Inducks: W WDC 94-02
Barrier: MBAC-172
CBL: 07C-709
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1948, February 3 (Inducks submission: 1948-02-03)
Publication date: 1948, July (Inducks publication date: 1948-07)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 94, Vol. 8, No. 10
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: fooled by smugglers on a desert beach

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WDC 95 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 95, Vol. 8, No. 11

Inducks: WDC 95
Barrier: MBAC-172
Publisher:
Label: Dell
Publication date: 1948, August
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 52
Cover price:

New material:

W WDC 95-00 new heat wave due
W WDC 95-02 raising five dollars in half an hour

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

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W WDC 95-00 new heat wave due

Inducks: W WDC 95-00
Barrier: MBAC-172
CBL: 08A-017
Type: cover (Inducks artist: Carl Barks) (Inducks writer: Carl Barks) (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1948, March 4 (Inducks submission: 1948-03-04)
Publication date: 1948, August (Inducks publication date: 1948-08)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 95, Vol. 8, No. 11
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: on beach with Bolivar

Landmark: Barks' first published cover for Walt Disney Comics & Stories, submitted on the same date as the cover for issue 96.

Backstage: In 1983, Barks commented in an interview with Bruce Hamilton: "I am very poor at lettering and hate every inch of it. My biggest problem with the cover for number 95 was lettering the newspaper lying in the sand. But I did all of my lettering until 1952, when my wife Garé took over."

Interviews:

1983 interview by Bruce Hamilton

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W WDC 95-02 raising five dollars in half an hour

(Inducks description: Gladstone Returns)

Inducks: W WDC 95-02
Barrier: MBAC-172
CBL: 08A-019
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1948, February 19 (Inducks submission: 1948-02-19)
Publication date: 1948, August (Inducks publication date: 1948-08)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 95, Vol. 8, No. 11
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: Fund-raising race; Gladstone Returns"

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WDC 96 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 96, Vol. 8, No. 12

Inducks: WDC 96
Barrier: MBAC-172
Publisher:
Label: Dell
Publication date: 1948, September
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 52
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New material:

W WDC 96-00 super bubble soap
W WDC 96-02 hole-in-one caddies

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

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W WDC 96-00 super bubble soap

Inducks: W WDC 96-00
Barrier: MBAC-172
CBL: 08A-018
Type: cover (Inducks artist: Carl Barks) (Inducks writer: Carl Barks) (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1948, March 4 (Inducks submission: 1948-03-04)
Publication date: 1948, September (Inducks publication date: 1948-09)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 96, Vol. 8, No. 12
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: floats out of bath on soap bubbles

Surviving material: Original art of alternate earlier version. Published as cover for "Walt Disney Comics & Stories" No. 540, 1989.

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W WDC 96-02 hole-in-one caddies

(Inducks description: Links Hijinks)

There's more here than meets the eye!
Cousin Donald has hydrophobia or something!
I better cash in on it!
-- Gladstone Gander

Inducks: W WDC 96-02
Barrier: MBAC-172
CBL: 08A-029
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1948, March 25 (Inducks submission: 1948-03-25)
Publication date: 1948, September (Inducks publication date: 1948-09)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 96, Vol. 8, No. 12
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: HDL help DD to win GL on a golf match; Links Hijinks

Congruences:

Donald's Golf Game: golf contest
unluckiest golfer of the day: golf contest

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WDC 97 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 97, Vol. 9, No. 2

Inducks: WDC 97
Barrier: MBAC-172
Publisher:
Label: Dell
Publication date: 1948, October
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 52
Cover price:

New material:

W WDC 97-02 pearls for daisy

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

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W WDC 97-02 pearls for daisy

(Inducks description: Pearls of Wisdom)

Open up, Donald Duck! You smart aleck! You wisecracker! I'm here to thank you for your little joke!
-- Daisy Duck

Inducks: W WDC 97-02
Barrier: MBAC-172
CBL: 08A-039
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1948, April 29 (Inducks submission: 1948-04-29)
Publication date: 1948, October (Inducks publication date: 1948-10)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 97, Vol. 9, No. 2
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: diving to find pearls for DA

Research: On the Disney comics Mailing List, Dwight Decker gave an answer to the question if Mexican jumping beans really jump: "Yes, they do! They're seeds of a Mexican plant with an insect larva inside. The movement of the larva inside causes the seed to seem to jump. The movement is real, and even startling, though exaggerated in cartoons."

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WDC 98 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 98, Vol. 9, No. 2

Inducks: WDC 98
Barrier: MBAC-172
Publisher:
Label: Dell
Publication date: 1948, November
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 52
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New material:

W WDC 98-02 fox hunting sportsman

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W WDC 98-02 fox hunting sportsman

(Inducks description: Foxy Relations)

Here Finnan Haddie! Here, Smoked Barracuda!
Shad Roe, where are you?
Kippered Sprats! Marinated Mackerel! Filet Of Sole!
Sardines In Olive Oil! There you are!
Columbia River Smelt, come to papa! Grilled Halibut, ol' boy, it's me!
Dogfish! Catfish! Sawfish! Swordfish! Goldfish! Whitefish! Chub! Carp! Minnows! Guppies!
Callico Bass! Bluegills! (Pant! Puff!) Red Snapper! Jelly Fish!
-- Donald Duck

Inducks: W WDC 98-02
Barrier: MBAC-172
CBL: 08A-053
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1948, May 28 (Inducks submission: 1948-05-28)
Publication date: 1948, November (Inducks publication date: 1948-11)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 98, Vol. 9, No. 2
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: DD caught 300 foxes; DD catches 300 animals; DD catches 300 foxes by accident; Foxy Relations

Landmark: First appearance of Uncle Scrooge in Walt Disney Comics and Stories.

Appearances: Frank Bucko (2.8); Red Herring (3.1); Lord Tweeksdale (9.1).

Research: Big game hunter Frank Buck, upon whom "Frank Bucko" on page 2 was obviously based, was a popular real life adventurer of the day. His exploits were chronicled often in that era's journals and were even the subject of a short-lived comic book series, "Frank Buck", published by Fox Features in 1950. More recently, the Frank Buck legend enjoyed a brief resurgence in the form of 1982/83 television adventure series, "Bring 'Em Back Alive."

Congruences:

Yoicks! The Fox!: Similar plot.

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WDC 99 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 99, Vol. 9, No. 3

Inducks: WDC 99
Barrier: MBAC-172
Publisher:
Label: Dell
Publication date: 1948, December
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 52
Cover price:

New material:

W WDC 99-02 radio quiz show

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W WDC 99-02 radio quiz show

(Inducks description: The Crazy Quiz Show)

Nine trillion multipadillion, six hundred and eighty-six squadrificillion, fifty octodecimadillion, eight hundred and sixty-three centrifipillion --
nine hundred and forty overplusillion, six hundred and five duplicatillion, thirty-three impossibadillion --
seven hundred and ninety-one compounded ultrafatillion, three hundred and forty super trillion, fifty-nine duper dillion, twenty-nine billion, seven hundred and fifty million --
four hundred and six thousand, five hundred and thirty three drops!
-- Donald Duck

Inducks: W WDC 99-02
Barrier: MBAC-172
CBL: 08A-065
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: [unknown] (Inducks writer: ?,Carl Barks(rewrite))
Script rewriting: Carl Barks
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1948, June 10 (Inducks submission: 1948-06-10)
Publication date: 1948, December (Inducks publication date: 1948-12)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 99, Vol. 9, No. 3
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Inducks description: DD studies books to take part at a quiz-show for a barrel of money; D+N participate in crazy TV quiz show

Additional credits: In his 1969 list of work for Western, Barks wrote about this story: "Script came from the office. I was paid $ 25 extra for 'revising' it."

Landmark: Mickey Mouse is mentioned in panel 5.7. Barks seldom used Disney characters outside the Duck Family in any of his stories. When asked to comment for the Library about this reference, he wrote, "I can't remember the origin of the 'Mickey's Social Security number' gag. It probably was in the script as it came from the office. I doubt that I would have felt it permissible to mention Mickey."

In Barbara Boatner's Introduction to The Fine Art of Walt Disney's Donald Duck (page 24), Barks commented on Western Publishing's policy of keeping the identities separate of the traditional Disney characters whenever practical because of the many titles using the different names, saying "I wouldn't have been tempted to use them, anyway."

Research: The radio-quiz show Donald appears on was based on the then popular games series, "Truth or Consequences." This show entertained audiences by demeaning its contestants, forcing them to take the consequences if they failed to answer questions correctly. The results could be cruel, and Barks made Donald's humiliation positively brutal to satirize the sadism of basing a show on such a concept.

Panel 1.1 states that "Caesar was born in 102 B.C.!" Actually there have been different opinions about this date. The introduction to a 1897 edition of Caesar's Gallic Wars mentions that "Gaius Iulius Caesar was born July 12, in the year 100 before Christ [Some scholars put the date two years earlier. Cf. Mommsen, "History of Rome," (ed. of 1895), vol. iv., pp. 278-280.], being thus six years younger than Cicero and Pompey."

Congruences: